What’s E-Cycling? Let’s face a sad truth: very few people dispose of their electronics in ways that are environmentally-friendly. Batteries, old iPods, broken laptops, and basically any kind of technology that isn’t being used anymore is going to end up in a landfill more often than it will be brought [...]

Yesterday, as part of the COP16 Climate Conference taking place in Cancun, The Carbon War Room announced the winners of the Gigaton Awards for Outstanding Business Leadership in Climate & Sustainability. Sir Richard Branson, the co-founder of The Carbon War Room, presented the prizes to businesses such as Nike, 3M, [...]

Nissan Canada, manufacturer of the upcoming Leaf electric vehicle, announced today that its Canadian headquarters will be switching from traditional energy sources to 100% locally produced renewable energy, provided by Bullfrog Power. Bullfrog’s system is appealing – even to large corporations like Nissan Canada – in that it doesn’t require [...]

SoleRebels, the innovative Ethiopian shoe company that is the world’s first producer of Fair-Trade footwear, has recently announced a partnership with Europe’s Spartoo.com. Spartoo.com is a web-based fashion outlet that specializes in footwear of all types, from high-fashion to Goth to sport shoes. Spartoo is the largest online retailer of [...]

Who said you could never go green and look good while doing it? Well, try and tell that to the folks at Clif Bar and Company, a nutritional sport’s food company, who show us how easy it is to do both with the unveiling of their new headquarters. Clif Bar [...]

Remember our so-called nuclear disarmament? Granted, thousands of U.S. and Russian nuke warheads did get dismantled in the late 1980s, but the U.S. still maintains nearly 10,000, ready 24/7 to send us to instant Armageddon. Or maybe not 24/7. The same pesky way our own computers go off-line, our nuclear [...]

Garden offices give breathing space, are highly insulated and are an alternative to a house extension. When having a garden office constructed in a garden there is no disruption to the home and no need to move house. Designed and built to last a lifetime using housing quality standards and [...]

We spend nearly a third of our waking lives at our places of work. Our activities there can have as much effect on the environment as what we do at home, but few among us think a great deal about it. While some of these ideas can, and should, be [...]

Spend any time on the internet and you’ll no doubt have seen calls for a boycott of all BP (British Petroleum) products. This includes their gas stations (ARAL in Germany, ARCO in the US), as well as Castrol motor oil. A Good Sentiment, But… Not giving our business to BP [...]

Watching baseball’s first quadruple play was strange. Seeing Wal-Mart go green is stranger still. First the baseball: The scene was a game of T-Ball, where everyone bats every inning, regardless of the number of outs. The bases were loaded when a line drive that ended up in the glove of [...]